For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual..

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to di….

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane..

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards..

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the mass….

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indi….

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilous….

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope..

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theolog….

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than ….

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity….

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection..

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution..

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication..

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdo….

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism..

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying..

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality..

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledg….

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be call….

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama..