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

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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.

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

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.