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

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

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

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.