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

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

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

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.

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

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

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.