The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.