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.

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

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