The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface..

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history..

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford..

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds..

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people..

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success..

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma..

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment..

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium..

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehic….

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be..

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them..

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other..