The Just and the Unjust QUOTES

1 " Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader. "

― James Gould Cozzens , The Just and the Unjust

3 " 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

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

― James Gould Cozzens , The Just and the Unjust