Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.
Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.
We all have different brow bones, and different amounts of space between the eyebrow and the lashes; the space on the upper lid is bigger or smaller, the space on the bridge of the nose or between the eyes is wider or narrower. Everyone is different.
You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
