I do not think that the great publishing houses can be properly classed among our opponents. […] A great number of legends in all countries are indebted for their origin to the extreme desire which men have to assign a cause for the various phænomena of the natural world. […] Fire being the great agent in reducing and working the metals, the fire-god naturally became an artist. […] All the goddesses, save Hera and Eileithyia, (whom the art of Hera kept in ignorance of this great event,) were assembled in the isle. […] Apollo made a great cast, and Hyacinthos running too eagerly to take up the discus, it rebounded and struck him in the face.

We find, moreover, in some cases a great variety of symbolic explanations of the same myth, one with as great claim to credence as another, since they spring from the same source, the caprice or fancy of the expounder. […] The earth is the great parent of all; the stones are her bones; these we may cast behind us; this, I think, the oracle means. […] In the great hall of the Olympian king the gods feasted each day on ambrosia and nectar. […] But ‘tis love of thee that has compelled me to measure out so great a space of the salt sea, in a bull’s shape. […] The festival of Venus was at hand, — a festival celebrated with great pomp at Cyprus.