“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things”

“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass”

“If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horse”

“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”

“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on”

“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself”