“Capacity for nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupation to which the position of life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men loose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasure because they are the only ones they have access, or only ones they are any longer capable of enjoying.”

- British philosopher-economist John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)