"The community stagnates without the impulse of..." - Quote by William James

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition”

“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”

“Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.”

“All things are in common among friends.”

“When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”

“The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives”

“It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.”

“No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.”