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

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.

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

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.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

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