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

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

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

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

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.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.