“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or prom...” — Gilbert Murray Quote

“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.”

“Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.”

“The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.”

“Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.”

“The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”

“It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.”

“Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.”

“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”

“As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.”

“If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.”

“The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.”

“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.”