Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. – William James
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – William James
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. – F. Scott Fitzgerald