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

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

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

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

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.