The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.