The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

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

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.