To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
So full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
Sitting here with one’s knitting, one just sees the facts.
Les femmes. They are marvellous! They invent haphazard – and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together – and they call the result intuition.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
To make a success of humanity, we must profit by the lessons of those below us in the animal kingdom.
These little grey cells. It is “up to them” – as you say over here.
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
