Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

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

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.