Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley

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An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
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.

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