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

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 called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

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

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.

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.

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 with the quality of our democracy.