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

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

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.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

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

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