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.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

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

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

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

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.