We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

- Heinrich Schliemann

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to …

- Heinrich Schliemann

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.

- Heinrich Schliemann

Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!

- Heinrich Schliemann