People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
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
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.