Joe

“If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds--a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in.”
― James Gould Cozzens, The Just And The Unjust: A Gripping Crime Mystery – Classic Police Drama in a Small-Town Murder Trial

“At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second rate, by no degree of effort or assiduity to be made the equal of abilities like Bonbright's.”
― James Gould Cozzens, The Just And The Unjust: A Gripping Crime Mystery – Classic Police Drama in a Small-Town Murder Trial

“Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know. ”
― Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day

“The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.”
― James Gould Cozzens, The Just And The Unjust: A Gripping Crime Mystery – Classic Police Drama in a Small-Town Murder Trial