Society Is An Interweaving And Interworking Of

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.

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.

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

Our Individual Lives Cannot, Generally, Be Works Of Art Unless The Social Order Is Also.

We Cannot Feel Strongly Toward The Totally Unlike Because It Is Unimaginable, Unrealizable; Nor Yet Toward The Wholly Like Because It Is Stale - Identity Must Always Be Dull Company. The Power Of Other Natures Over Us Lies In A Stimulating Difference Which Causes Excitement And Opens Communication, In Ideas Similar To Our Own But Not Identical, In States Of Mind Attainable But Not Actual.