A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

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.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

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

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

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.