There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Edith Hamiltonthough the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
Edith HamiltonI 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.
Edith HamiltonWhen the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.
Edith Hamilton