With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
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.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
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.