Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
The normal food of man is vegetable.
We are optimists, until we are not.
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
The willing horse is always overworked.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
