Author Society Mythology Legends folklore 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
Knight Man The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. - Thomas Bulfinch
Knowledge Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. - Thomas Bulfinch
People We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. - Thomas Bulfinch
Power First The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. - Thomas Bulfinch
Power Government ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. - Thomas Bulfinch
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. - Suzanne Fields