...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.