With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
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.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
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.