Chronological Snobbery: Why the Latest Isn’t Always the Best In our second lunch, we noted a quote from Francis Bacon: Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors t...

Christopher Westcott slowly drank his pint of ale at the Bird and Baby, as locals liked to call the Eagle and Child, and basked in the familiar smells- old wood bathed in lemon oil, braised beef, stal...

Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means anointed. It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated messiah. When Jesus is called

Chris, soap people are likeus-they seldom go outdoors. And when they do, we only hear about it,never see it. They loll about in living rooms, bedrooms, sit in thekitchens and sip coffee or stand up an...

Choose to stop fighting and trust God to fight for you. That is how to win a battle.

Chip had been in there for a few very long hours. I had all kinds of awful thoughts about what might have happened to him in there. What if he’d been roughed up? Strip-searched? Who knows what awful t...

Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of...

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the...

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more...

Charles was nowhere to be seen. Maria had to go to look for him. Celia’s anxiety mounted. Pappy would never hang on until after six. He was like a baby with a bottle. He had to keep to his regular tim...

Change what you can if it needschanging, but learn to live with what you can’t change.

Chance had placed him in the catapult and now it was up to the vagaries of history to cut the catapult’s rope.

Cecily let her cheek fall to Leta’s shoulder and hugged her back. It felt so nice to be loved by someone in the world. Since her mother’s death, she’d had no one of her own. It was a lonely life, desp...

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreemen...

Catastrophe here does not mean disaster. Rather, it means the poignant enormity of our life experience. It includes crisis and disaster, the unthinkable and the unacceptable, but it also includes all...

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see the unfathomable stupidity of man

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Can we treat animal behavior with the same medicines, therapies, and approaches we use on humans? To me, the answer is an obvious yes. You could effectively teach medical students brain anatomy using...