PITHY QUOTES FROM PAST MASTERS
Your genius has moved with beneficent power in so many other directions than that of Physiology, it would cost you nothing to avow a mistake, even were you not countenanced by a host of very respectable authorities, as is the case in this mistaken hypothesis of Spontaneous Combustion.
The Letters of George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, Letter to Charles Dickens, 147. 12 February, 1853