"Genius... means little more than the faculty..." - Quote by William James

“Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.”

“The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.”

“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.”

“Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.”

“The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.”

“Inspiration and genius -one and the same.”

“We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.”

“The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.”

“Reality is what I see, not what you see.”