The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

...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.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.