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.

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

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

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

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.