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.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

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

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

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

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.