The elect of the race, its prophets, teachers, artists,--and every great artist is also a prophet and teacher,--are its leaders, not its masters; its interpreters, not its creators.

The race is dumb without its artists; but the artists would be impossible without the sustaining fellowship of the race.

In the making of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" the Greek race was in full partnership with Homer.

The ideas which form the summits of human achievement are sustained by immense masses of earth; the higher they rise the vaster their bases.

The richer and wider the race life, the freer and deeper the play of that vital logic which produces the formative ideas..