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

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

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

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

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

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 discipline of the military type.

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