Edith Hamilton

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

— Edith Hamilton

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

— Edith Hamilton

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

— Edith Hamilton

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Edith Hamilton

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Edith Hamilton

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the…

— Edith Hamilton

“He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. ”

— Edith Hamilton

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man…

— Edith Hamilton

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure…

— Edith Hamilton

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

— Edith Hamilton

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a…

— Edith Hamilton

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Edith Hamilton

“For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”

— Edith Hamilton

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

— Edith Hamilton

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we…

— Edith Hamilton

“We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.”

— Edith Hamilton

“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades…

— Edith Hamilton

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

— Edith Hamilton

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to…

— Edith Hamilton

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which…

— Edith Hamilton

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had…

— Edith Hamilton

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.…

— Edith Hamilton