"There is no evidence for an invasion or mass migration of new peoples from outside which destroyed the networks of th…"

"The existence of a group of people called Indo-Europeans or Vedic Aryans has achieved the status of received wisdom—i…"

"Why, yes, of course I wrote all the Arab of Mesopotamia. I've loved the reviews which speak of the practical men who …"

"A poor gentlewoman, doctor, is the worst thing in the world"

"It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, …"

"I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies."

"I have nothing to fear… I am the sun, the stars, the pearl, the lion, the light from heaven."

"Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women."

"I shall not allow the pension… to be stopped by force: I shall resign it,"

"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."