Find some other boy equally conceited, equally foolish, equally unscrupulous, and set him at Tim.

I will undertake to say that--unless the two devour one another down to the very tips of their tails, like the famous Kilkenny cats--they will bring one another to reason, and perhaps modesty, in double-quick time.
The great and wise Newton once said of himself that, so far from knowing all things, he seemed to himself to be but as a boy gathering pebbles on the seashore, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him.
Newton was, in his way, almost as fine a fellow as Timothy Told-you-so, and if Timothy would but stoop to have more of Newton's spirit, he might in time come to possess an atom or two of Newton's sense..