Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has c...eased to constitute a threat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cure... is generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune seventy times in succession,... because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded and ...observes much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »