The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William JamesAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
William JamesTruth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
William James