If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

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

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

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

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

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.