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.

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

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

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

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

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.