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

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

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

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.

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