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

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

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

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

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

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.