Charles Horton Cooley Life Quotations

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.