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

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

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

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

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

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