I am certain that it is not so in my own case.

My eye is very much nearer my heart than my ear is.

My eye much sooner affects, and much more powerfully affects, my heart than my ear ever does.

Not only is my eye by very much the shortest road to my heart, but, like all other short roads, it is cram-full of all kinds of traffic when my ear stands altogether empty.

My eye is constantly crowded and choked with all kinds of commerce; whole hordes of immigrants and invaders trample one another down on the congested street that leads from my eye to my heart.