"L’écrivain original n’est pas celui qui n’imite personne, mais celui que personne ne peut imiter."

"J'ai pleuré et j'ai cru."

"One does not learn how to die by killing others."

"Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its…"

"I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character."

"In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opi…"

"Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare …"

"Aussitôt qu'une pensée vraie est entrée dans notre esprit, elle jette une lumière qui nous fait voir une foule d'autr…"

"Every institution goes through three stages — utility, privilege, and abuse."

"Though we have not employed the arguments usually advanced by the apologists of Christianity, we have arrived by a di…"