Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

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

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