Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. – Norman Vincent Peale
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers