A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
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.