Edith Hamilton

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. ”

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

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. ”

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. ”

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

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”

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 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. ”