Top 15 Edith Hamilton Quotes

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated."

[Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

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

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

I 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.

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

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

Moderately wise each one should be,
Not overwise, for a wise man's heart
Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

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, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.

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