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

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

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.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

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.

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

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