Answers Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open…

— Richard Henry Stoddard

“If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . .…

— Anonymous

“Faustina is a great work of the Creator. She has nothing of what you call brains; she doesn't need them for her destiny... It…

— Robertson Davies

“A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable…

— Emily Dickinson

“Helen?" Not Helen of -?" "Ten years the Trojan War raged. No god was spared. No hero. No Amazon. So it will be if…

— Leigh Bardugo

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

— D. H. Lawrence

Oh Man, know thyself and know the Universe and the Gods Oracle of Delphi

— Anonymous

“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as ever they…

— Frederick Buechner

We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what…

— Frederick Lenz

“What could she do who would not cast away magic and leave the home that an ageless day had endeared to her while centuries…

— Lord Dunsany

“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes…

— Charles Mackay