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

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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

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.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

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