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

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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

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.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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.

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