Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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.

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

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