The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.

The tanned appearance of many New Englanders is not sunburn - it is rust.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

If you're unhappy, change something.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage