Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.