A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

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

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

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.