None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

...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.

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

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.