“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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 imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
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.
