The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. Gilbert Murray on happiness
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. Gilbert Murray on imagination
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. Gilbert Murray on poetry