The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.