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.

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

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

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

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

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