"Pompous the boast, and yet a truth it speaks: A Modern Athens—fit for modern Greeks."

"Through regions by wild men and cannibals haunted, Old Dame Ida Pfeiffer goes lone and undaunted; But, bless you, the…"

"Tomkins will clear the land, they say, From every foul abuse: So chimneys in the olden day, Were cleansed by a goose."

"Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about…"

"We like to think we're free in the ; that we're beyond the forces of advertising and social manipulation by market fo…"

"Communal living: Plato recommended it, 19th-century religious separatists tried it, anarchists and hippies spectacula…"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"

"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat th…"

"When I was a little boy at school, floundering through Herodotus, and getting double doses of fum-fum daily for my An…"