Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.