I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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.
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,...
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is...
A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.