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

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

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.

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

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.