The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
Irving BabbittIf quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
Irving BabbittWe 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.
Irving Babbitt