To Retire To The Monastery,

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, And So On. We Always Imagine, And In Imagining Share, The Judgments Of The Other Mind.

To Get Away From One's Working Environment Is, In A Sense, To Get Away From One's Self; And This Is Often The Chief Advantage Of Travel And Change.

Form The Habit Of Making Decisions When Your Spirit Is Fresh...to Let Dark Moods Lead Is Like Choosing Cowards To Command Armies.

It Is Partly To Avoid Consciousness Of Greed That We Prefer To Associate With Those Who Are At Least As Greedy As We Ourselves. Those Who Consume Much Less Are A Reproach.

The Idealist's Program Of Political Or Economic Reform May Be Impracticable, Absurd, Demonstrably Ridiculous; But It Can Never Be Successfully Opposed Merely By Pointing Out That This Is The Case. A Negative Opposition Cannot Be Wholly Effectual: There Must Be A Competing Idealism; Something Must Be Offered That Is Not Only Less Objectionable But More Desirable.