He has a perfectly clear sense that the fragments of his intellectual circle include the curves of many other minds of which he is cognizant.

He often recognizes these as manifestly concentric with his own, but of less radius.
On the other hand, when we find a portion of an are on the outside of our own, we say it INTERSECTS ours, but are very slow to confess or to see that it CIRCUMSCRIBES it.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it.
-- If I thought I should ever see the Alps!--said the schoolmistress.
Perhaps you will, some time or other,--I said.
It is not very likely,--she answered .-- I have had one or two opportunities, but I had rather be anything than governess in a rich family.
[Proud, too, you little soft-voiced woman! Well, I can't say I like you any the worse for it.

How long will school-keeping take to kill you?
Is it possible the poor thing works with her needle, too?
I don't like those marks on the side of her forefinger.
Tableau.