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

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.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three