Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.