Selfishness Of The Stable Or Rigid Sort

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.

Form The Habit Of Making Decisions When Your Spirit Is Fresh...to Let Dark Moods Lead Is Like Choosing Cowards To Command Armies.

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.

If Youth Is The Period Of Hero-worship, So Also Is It True That Hero-worship, More Than Anything Else, Perhaps, Gives One The Sense Of Youth. To Admire, To Expand One's Self, To Forget The Rut, To Have A Sense Of Newness And Life And Hope, Is To Feel Young At Any Time Of Life.

The Literature Of The Inner Life Is Very Largely A Record Of Struggle With The Inordinate Passions Of The Social Self.