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

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

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

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.

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

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

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