It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. – William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it — a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. – John Stuart Mill