“If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.”
“Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.”
“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”
“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ”
“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.”
“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”