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

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.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

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

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

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.