"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." ― William James Topic(s): Great Tags: great More From William James "In business for yourself, not by yourself." "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." "Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action." More In Great "See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little."― Pope John XXIII "A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."― Lord John Russell "By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."― Samuel Johnson