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.

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.

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

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.