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

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

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

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

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

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

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