"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"Since the normal tendency is to simplify, to trivialize, to eliminate the unfamiliar word or construction, the rule i…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"There is a tiny pause, right at the start of the film that caught at my heart, but I didn't think anyone else would n…"

"Of the many metaphors for biography, two make useful starting points. One — a disturbing image — is the autopsy, the …"

"When I was very young, I think I was aware that I was reading different kinds of books, which slightly took my teache…"

"Emotions about our lost houses and gardens have to do with growing old and acquiring guilt: we are always leaving our…"