There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.