Edith Hamilton

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

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

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

She was brave from excess of grief

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought__hat is to be educ

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.

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

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

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.