 To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. |
| Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. |
| To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. |
| The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. |
| There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. |
| We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. |
| Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. |
| The bashful are always aggressive at heart. |
| Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. |
| Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. |
| Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. |
