Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.