The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

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