"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect." — Henry James

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.