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

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

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.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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.

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

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.