There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

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.

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

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.