Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – William James
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. – William James

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – William James
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. – William James
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse. – William James
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. – William James
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers