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

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.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

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

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, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.