Famous quotes containing the words james and/or austen:
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“I do not write for such dull elves
As have not a great deal of ingenuity themselves.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)