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

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

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