"Why do we see dead people? What function can a troll on a mountain ridge possibly serve? There is no easy answer to s…"

"Peter von Bohlen claimed in 1835, the historian of the Orient must treat all people equally: ‘... he must learn to re…"

"There was no priestly hierarchy either for Greece as a whole or for single cantons; not even among priests of the sam…"

"Viewing history in the large, we cannot fail to see that the world we live in is essentially a . All its fundamental …"

"No single personality, excepting the carpenter's son of Nazareth, has done so much to make the world of civilisation …"

"The rate at which your knowledge will ripen into wisdom depends in considerable part upon your distinguishing what is…"

"... I took the ashes out to the , leaving a little trail of cinders from a broken corner of the box. The trouble abou…"

"With the suit, Christine wore a grey felt beret which had been sold to her cheaply by Mrs Arnold in Millinery, becaus…"

"The road from Boston to Cape Cod is long and straight and ruthless. Two black slashes cutting through the sandy count…"

"In the Refusal Race, you had to trot up to a jump, stop the horse and sail over the jump by yourself on to Anna's spa…"