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

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

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

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

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.

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