Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

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

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.