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

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.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

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

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

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