The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.
People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
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