Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.
Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.