Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
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.