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

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

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

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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

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.