Quotes by James, William

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst >>

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the m >>

Man lives for science as well as bread. >>

Quotations about Heroes and Heroism

One brave deed makes no hero. >>

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have >>

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if >>

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

James, William