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

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

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

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.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.