Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.
Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examin...
A man without fear cannot be a slave.
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
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...
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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.
When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire an...
Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.
He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.
Egypt is a fertile valley of rich river soil, low-lying, warm, monotonous, a slow-flowing river, and beyond the limitless desert. Greece is a country of sparse fertility and keen, cold winters, all hi...
One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.
We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: Love—Eros—makes his home in men’s hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs....