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

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

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

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