Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

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.

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.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.