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

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

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

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

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

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

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