William James — "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging the…"

"Our errors are not so much new and unheard of as they are old ones, dressed up in new clothes."

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse of the individual withers without the sympathy of the community."

"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy."

"The difference between a bad habit and a good one is that a bad habit is easy to acquire and difficult to get rid of, while a good habit is difficult to acquire and easy to get rid of."

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For every one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laughter."