George F. Hoar: “The American Minister is compelled by our rules to wear a dress which exposes him to be mistaken for a waiter at any…”

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness…

And the Greeks, in turn, owed their astronomy to the Egyptians, with whom the year was reckoned as of three hundred and sixty days; and this three hundred and sixty-day year gives us the clue to the forty-day period for holding the Forest…