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

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.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

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.