Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

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• Jean Henri Fabre:

  We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

• Jean Henri Fabre:

  The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the m

• Jean Henri Fabre:

  Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a h

• Jean Henri Fabre:

  Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absen

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

  Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

  The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in t

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

  When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

  Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

  All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it trie

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

  There is a noble and a base side to every history.