“A master passion is the love of news.”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”

“Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain…. at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.”

“The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience." It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.”

“4702. The Passions are like Fire and Water; good Servants, but bad Masters.”

“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”

“It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.”

“Children are the masters of the new society.”

“It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”

“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”