The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

If you can't hurt the other person at least once a day, then you've got no relationship.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.

To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.