“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

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

“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.”

“The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st James 2nd and the Old Pretender.”

“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

“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.”