Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

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.

Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.