Thomas Bulfinch Quotes About Mythology

• For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Allies, Literature, Virtue

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Book, Mean, Giving

  Thomas Bulfinch (1855). “The Age of Fable: Or, Beauties of Mythology”, p.4

• If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Helping, Claims, Mythology

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Literature, Language, Appreciated

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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