The historian:loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay; having much ado to accord differing writers and to pick truth out of partiality; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how this world goeth than how his own wit runneth; curious for antiquities and inquisitive of novelties; a wonder to young folks and a tyrant in table talk, denieth, in a great chafe, that any man for teaching of virtue, and virtuous actions is comparable to him.

There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

That sweet enemy, France.

Mankind can hardly be too often reminded, that there was once a man named Socrates, between whom and the legal authorities and public opinion of his time, ther…

Here is the story, as far as I can trace it, of Chomsky's effort to 'minimize' or 'deny' the harvest of the Khmer Rouge. It will be seen that the phony 'credib…

Atheists and the unchurched undervalue the extent to which they are getting a free ride on the social strength that religious-based virtue provides.