“A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.”

— William James

Lectures XI, XII, and XIII, "Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

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American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842–1910

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