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.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

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

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.