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

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

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

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