To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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

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

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.

We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.