When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

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

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.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.