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

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.

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

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

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

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

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