The Literature Of The Inner Life Is

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.

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 Actual God Of Many Americans... Is Simply The Current Of American Life.

The Chief Misery Of The Decline Of The Faculties, And A Main Cause Of The Irritability That Often Goes With It, Is Evidently The Isolation, The Lack Of Customary Appreciation And Influence, Which Only The Rarest Tact And Thoughtfulness On The Part Of Others Can Alleviate.

There Is No Way To Penetrate The Surface Of Life But By Attacking It Earnestly At A Particular Point.