Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
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.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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 hardly accepted.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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.
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.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Our individual lives cannot generally be works of art unless the social order is also.
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
