Who said “We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the…”?

“You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”

“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.”

“One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”

“The bashful are always aggressive at heart.”

“To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.”

“The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.”

“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”