Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. - Henry James

Madame Merle had once said that, in her belief, when a friendship ceased to grow, it immediately began to decline - there was no point of equilibrium between liking a person more and liking him less.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.