To Cease To Admire Is A Proof

The Imaginations Which People Have Of One Another Are The Solid Facts Of Society.

The Mind Is Not A Hermit's Cell, But A Place Of Hospitality And Intercourse.

Simplicity Is A Pleasant Thing In Children, Or At Any Age, But It Is Not Necessarily Admirable, Nor Is Affectation Altogether A Thing Of Evil. To Be Normal, To Be At Home In The World, With A Prospect Of Power, Usefulness, Or Success, The Person Must Have That Imaginative Insight Into Other Minds That Underlies Tact And Savoir-faire, Morality And Beneficence. This Insight Involves Sophistication, Some Understanding And Sharing Of The Clandestine Impulses Of Human Nature. A Simplicity That Is Merely The Lack Of This Insight Indicates A Sort Of Defect.

Every General Increase Of Freedom Is Accompanied By Some Degeneracy, Attributable To The Same Causes As The Freedom.

The Need To Exert Power, When Thwarted In The Open Fields Of Life, Is The More Likely To Assert Itself In Trifles.