Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William JamesWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William JamesWe, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.
William James