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

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.

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.

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.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

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

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