All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.