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.

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

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

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.

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.

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