If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Completeness is rare in history.

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.