"Despair lames most people, but it wakes..." - Quote by William James

“Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.”

“An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.”

“Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.”

“He who despairs is wrong.”

“Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.”

“My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.”

“In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”

“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”

“Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”