To Cease To Admire Is A Proof

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.

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

There Is No Way To Penetrate The Surface Of Life But By Attacking It Earnestly At A Particular Point.

To Retire To The Monastery, Or The Woods, Or The Sea, Is To Escape From The Sharp Suggestions That Spur On Ambition.

The Actual God Of Many Americans... Is Simply The Current Of American Life.