An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

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.

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

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

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

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.