One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.