Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.