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

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

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

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

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

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.