The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

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

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

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.