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

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.

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

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

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

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.

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