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

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

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

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

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.