Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

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