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

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

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

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

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.