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)

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

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

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

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

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.