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

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

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

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

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

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

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