Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. – William James, The Principles of Psychology
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet
I am sure it is ones duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are ones own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. – A. C. Benson
