An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.

Had the Greeks held novelty in such disdain as we, what work of ancient date would now exist?

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.