Culture opens the sense of beauty.
Do your thing, and I shall know you.
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.