To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

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

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

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.

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.