The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

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

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

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

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.

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.

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