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.

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.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

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

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

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

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