“There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, w...” — William Kingdon Clifford Quote

“There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.”

“We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.”

“The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.”

“Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.”

“I was never In a restaurant until after I left home. My mother came from Abruzzi and they're noted for their great cooking.”

“They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.”