Observation Quotes

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Did man, after his first inroad into South America, destroy, as has been suggested, the unwieldy Megatherium and the other Edentata?

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.