The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James
What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,