Point Defects

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or defects:

“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)