To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
