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.

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.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

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

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

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.