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

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

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

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.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.