Charles Horton Cooley

"An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. "

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. "

"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. "

"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. "

"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. "

"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. "