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

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

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.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

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