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

Tell him, too,” she said, “never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.

Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.” The Greeks from the earliest mythologists on had a perception of the divine and the excellent. Their longing for them was great enough to make them never give up laboring to see them clearly, until at last the thunder and lightning were changed into the Universal Father.

In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
And what was looked for went another way.
A path we never thought to tread God found for us.
So this has come to pass.