Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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

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.

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.

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

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