Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.