A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke

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

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

Discretion is not the better part of biography.