There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

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.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.