To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

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

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

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