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

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.