Charles Horton Cooley was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, and he was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association. He is perhaps best known for his concept of the looking glass self, which is the concept that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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.