Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

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

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

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

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.