Quotes from Edith Hamilton

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

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

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without.

One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.

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

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

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

The early Greek mythologists transformed a world full of fear into a world full of beauty.

Tell him, too," she said, "never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.

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.

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.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

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.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

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