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.

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

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

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

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.

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