Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

chose to ignore or distort the clear evidence.