It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.