Faith Is Not Belief. Belief Is Passive.

There Are Few Efforts More Conducive To Humility Than That Of The Translator Trying To Communicate An Incommunicable Beauty. Yet, Unless We Do Try, Something Unique And Never Surpassed Will Cease To Exist Except In The Libraries Of A Few Inquisitive Book Lovers.

The Modern Minds In Each Generation Are The Critics Who Preserve Us From A Petrifying World, Who Will Not Leave Us To Walk Undisturbed In The Ways Of Our Fathers.

Great Art Is The Expression Of A Solution Of The Conflict Between The Demands Of The World Without And That Within.

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.

Poetry And Preaching Do Not Go Well Together; When The Preacher Mounts The Pulpit The Poet Usually Goes Away.