Attention

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives

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

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

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

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

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

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

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