Historians may lie, but History cannot. - George Saintsbury

In the sect – fairly large and yet unusually choice – of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.