According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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

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

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.