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

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

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

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

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.