“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”
“I never trusted good-looking boys.”
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”
“It's impressive how God attends to the details.”
“Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”
“But of course, very few people are Dexter. This is generally a good thing, but in this case it came in handy to be me. Four months after reading a story in the paper about a missing boy, I read a similar story. The boys were around the same age; details like that always ring a small bell and send a Mister Rogers whisper trickling through my brain: “Hello, neighbor.”