The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.