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.

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.

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

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.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.