 Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. |
| Any stigma will do to beat a dogma. |
| History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them. |
| 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. |
| Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. |
