Who said “A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too…”?

“The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ... Don't stop to marvel.”

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

“I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”

“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.”

“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”