observation Quotes

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region,... ...

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have... ...