A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

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

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

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.