History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
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.
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