We Have No Higher Life That Is

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.

A Man May Lack Everything But Tact And Conviction And Still Be A Forcible Speaker; But Without These Nothing Will Avail... Fluency, Grace, Logical Order, And The Like, Are Merely The Decorative Surface Of Oratory.

The More Developed Sexual Passion, In Both Sexes, Is Very Largely An Emotion Of Power, Domination, Or Appropriation. There Is No State Of Feeling That Says Mine, Mine, More Fiercely.

One Who Shows Signs Of Mental Aberration Is, Inevitably, Perhaps, But Cruelly, Shut Off From Familiar, Thoughtless Intercourse, Partly Excommunicated; His Isolation Is Unwittingly Proclaimed To Him On Every Countenance By Curiosity, Indifference, Aversion, Or Pity, And In So Far As He Is Human Enough To Need Free And Equal Communication And Feel The Lack Of It, He Suffers Pain And Loss Of A Kind And Degree Which Others Can Only Faintly Imagine, And For The Most Part Ignore.

As Social Beings We Live With Our Eyes Upon Our Reflection, But Have No Assurance Of The Tranquillity Of The Waters In Which We See It.