Rather like the Spockish character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, psychology is coming to appreciate the power and virtues of emotions in mental life, as well as their dangers.

I had never skinny dipped in my life, especially in the presence of other people.

John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.

In my brief stay in Johannesburg, I had left a trail of mistruths and, in each case, the falsehood had come back to haunt me.