What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.