Latin And Greek

Paul Shorey, Philology and Classical Philology, in: The Classical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 6 (May, 1906), p. 169:

Latin is a necessity; Greek is the first of luxuries. “Latin,” said Porson, or was it Bentley? “a man may in some sort master. Of Greek every man learns only so much as God permits.” In the great ages of enthusiasm God permits a good deal. In the trough of the waves, in the intervals of reaction and depression, men try to believe that Latin alone will do as well. . . .