Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William JamesOur esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William JamesI am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
William James