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.

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

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

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

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.

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

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.