"Some good judges assert that his is the best French prose that can be found. Hugo's anagram, première prose, is apt a…"

"Mérimée hated effects and pretense; he had no mercy for writers who strove to bring together words which were surpris…"

"When the youthful Queen Victoria was in Paris in 1840, she said to the Queen of France, whose guest she was, 'Do you …"

"the perverted picture as seen in opera and drama may not become our permanent impression of Mérimée's Carmen. Stage v…"

"Let Man remember that he is the Master, but not a Tyrant."

"Ce temps, si court, a des langueurs mortelles Quand l'âme oisive en compte les instans: C'est le travail qui lui donn…"

"Dans les espaces immenses de l'erreur, la vérité n'est qu'un point. Qui l'a saisi, ce point unique?"

"Il n'est pas permis à tous les hommes d'être grands, mais ils peuvent tous être bons."

"L'éloquence est dans l'âme, et non dans la parole."

"Le ciel, l'enfer sont dans le cœur de l'homme."