Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the … - Ernest Dimnet

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. We also forget that genius is not genius all the time, although it is superior all the time.