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.

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

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

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

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

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.