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.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

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.

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