Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. – Pierre Cabanis, translated from French
Well, I have a sister that Im very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period. – Zoe Kazan
As proverbs are meant to be portable, it is essential that they should be packed up in few words… – “Proverbs Secular and Sacred,” The North British Review, February 1858
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. – Oliver Evans