Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
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
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.