"Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by sw…"

"In those days, it was common for a woman to be addressed as ‘Miss’ even though she had earned a Ph.D. degree."

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"In the ancient land of vintage and dance and sun-burnt mirth, there resounded during the Middle Ages a sweet chorus o…"

"The poetry of the troubadours was essentially social in character. Unlike Goethe's minstrel, who sang as the bird amo…"

"In the eleventh century the nobility, which had previously been terribly rough and barbarous, began to grow more refi…"

"Illiterate and yet cultivated, these lords and ladies demanded of their poets a strict adherence to generally recogni…"