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

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

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.

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.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.