There Is No Dignity Like The Dignity

Uncertainty Is The Prerequisite To Gaining Knowledge And Frequently The Result As Well.

A People's Literature Is The Great Text-book For Real Knowledge Of Them.

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.

They Were The First Westerners. The Spirit Of The West, The Modern Spirit, Is A Greek Discovery; And The Place Of The Greeks Is In The Modern World.

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.