When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

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 are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.