A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical or….

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 ….

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own..

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions..

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find sat….

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration..

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attachin….

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom..

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one,….

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, or….

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer ….

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies..

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling tha….

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse..

The bashful are always aggressive at heart..

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated….

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life d….

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius..

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and….

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imaginatio….

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a….