The vow, we may be sure, was soon forgotten, but the story shows how seriously in one respect the man of letters in France was worse off than his brother in England.
The world would have suffered no irreparable loss if the police had thrown the Sceptic's Walk into the fire.

It is an allegory designed to contrast the life of religion, the life of philosophy, and the life of sensual pleasure.

Of all forms of composition, an allegory most depends for its success upon the rapidity of the writer's eye for new felicities.

Accuracy, verisimilitude, sustention, count for nothing in comparison with imaginative adroitness and variety.

Bunyan had such an eye, and so, with infinitely more vivacity, had Voltaire.