The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

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

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 indifferent, or even actively resentful.

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

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.