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.

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.

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

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

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

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