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Top 15 Thomas Bulfinch Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.”

1. “The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.”

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

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief. His name is Loki. He is handsome and well made, but of a very fickle mood and most evil disposition. He is of the giant race, but forced himself into the company of the gods, and seems to take pleasure in bringing them into difficulties, and in extricating them out of the danger by his cunning, wit, and skill.”

3. “There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief. His name is Loki. He is handsome and well made, but of a very fickle mood and most evil disposition. He is of the giant race, but forced himself into the company of the gods, and seems to take pleasure in bringing them into difficulties, and in extricating them out of the danger by his cunning, wit, and skill.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.”

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

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.”

7. “Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “The word “Chivalry” is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.”

8. “The word “Chivalry” is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.”

9. “Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.”

11. “Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.”

13. “It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.”

14. “The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.”

15. “The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Thomas Bulfinch Quote: “The reader will, we apprehend, by this time have had enough of absurdities.”

18. “The reader will, we apprehend, by this time have had enough of absurdities.”

— Thomas Bulfinch

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