When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

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

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

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.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

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.