“ Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours? Gilbert Murray
“ Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest. Gilbert Murray
“ The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. Gilbert Murray
“ The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. Gilbert Murray
“ The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has n… Gilbert Murray
“ They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up its persecutors and its martyrs, its hates and slanders and aspira… Gilbert Murray
