"[Happiness is] The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope."

"There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable …"

"He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffic…"

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pl…"

"Even of old the Christian world, so bitterly antagonistic to any ideas not specifically contained in their creeds and…"

"Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man …"

"Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expressi…"

"They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the…"

"The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things..…"

"To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which dist…"