Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

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 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.

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

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.