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

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

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.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.