Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.