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)

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

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.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.