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

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

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

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

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.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.