A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

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.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

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.