“Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.”
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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.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
