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

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

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

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

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

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.