Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.