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

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

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.

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.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.