A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

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

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

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

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.

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

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.