Quotes by : James Gould Cozzens

About his madmen Mr. Lecky was no more certain. He knew less than the little to be learned of the causes....

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that....

Mr. Lecky could see well enough to eat. He brought his chair over and sat down gratefully while he consumed,....

Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously....

Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors....

If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy....

The recognition of his carelessness filled Mr. Lecky with fear and anger. In the dusk his eerie heart....

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large....

Traveling on, the shaft of his light reached now a great, dully shining oblong, and he stopped, surprised.....

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not....