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

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

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

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

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

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

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

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

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.

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

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

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

Worrying is like a man's beard, if you don't do something about it... it will keep growing.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Driven, damaged and dangerous, FBI agent Mercy Gunderson is one of the best female leads to come down the pike since Eve Dallas. Lori Armstrong delivers the goods with MERCILESS.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.