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

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

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

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.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.