The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

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)

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

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

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.