William James

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.