Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyve got a second. – William James
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. – William James