Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
William JamesMan, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
William JamesThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
William James