,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

The modern mind is never popular in its own day. People hate being made to think.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.