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

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

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.

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

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

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

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