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.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

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

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.