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

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

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

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.