Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

- Edith Hamilton

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

- Edith Hamilton

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 p…

- Edith Hamilton

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

- Edith Hamilton

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

- Edith Hamilton

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over.…

- Edith Hamilton

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

- Edith Hamilton

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

- Edith Hamilton

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

- Edith Hamilton