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.
From Irving Babbitt
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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