"This present art, in which we use those twice five Indian figures, is called algorismus."

"It was not exactly as you say. In practice, the 12 of us never lived at home at the same time, because the family gre…"

"In this respect I recall with much sympathy the writer Virginia Woolf who wrote about this need for private space (A …"

"Sire, God protect the crown of the king, for many royal crowns too have been shattered."

"Mary was conceived without sin. Behold! what the Church of Paris glories in professing and maintaining; what her Doct…"

"Islam is going through a crisis by contact with the Western world, and under the influence of Christianity many of th…"

"Stoicism, which generally disappeared as the official School, was the most important of the Hellenistic elements in t…"

"Nou goth sonne under wode,— Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode. Nou goth sonne under tre,— Me reweth, Marie, thi sone a…"

"It’s the same kind of pleasure as with hiking: You hike uphill and it’s tough and you sweat, and at the end of the da…"

"...If you have enough ability, then you cultivate it and build on it, just as a musician plays scales and practices t…"