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.

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

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

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.