Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

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 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.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

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

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.