Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

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

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.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

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