To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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.
Observe all men; thy self most.
Nothing can be so misleading as observation.
Like Men and Women Shadows walk Upon the Hills Today – With here and there a mighty Bow Or trailing Courtesy To Neighbors doubtless of their own Not quickened to perceive Minuter landscape as Ourselves And Boroughs where we live –
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.[The Canterville Ghost]
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren; and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur – and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass that the Guest leaves.
