“Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead,Through which the living Homer begged his bread ...”

“...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps with only Homer alone.”

“Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.”

“The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”

“Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?”

“As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.”

“Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.”