"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big successes. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if given time, will rend the hard monuments of human pride."
–– William James (1842-1910), American psychologist and philosopher
via Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 129.
