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

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

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

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.

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