The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.