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

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

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.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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

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.

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.