No Matter What A Man Does, He

When We Hate A Person, With An Intimate, Imaginative, Human Hatred, We Enter Into His Mind, Or Sympathize -- Any Strong Interest Will Arouse The Imagination And Create Some Sort Of Sympathy.

It Happens From Time To Time In Every Complex And Active Society, That Certain Persons Feel The Complexity And Insistence As A Tangle, And Seek Freedom In Retirement, As Thoreau Sought At Walden Pond. They Do Not, However, In This Manner Escape From The Social Institutions Of Their Time, Nor Do They Really Mean To Do So; What They Gain, If They Are Successful, Is A Saner Relation To Them.

To Desire To Be An Artist Is To Desire To Be A Complete Man In Respect To Some One Function, To Realize Yourself Utterly. A Man Is A Poor Thing Who Is Content Not To Be An Artist.

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.

To Persuade Is More Trouble Than To Dominate, And The Powerful Seldom Take This Trouble If They Can Avoid It.