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

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

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

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.