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

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.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.