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

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

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

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

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.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

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