It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.