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.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

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

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.