The French Academy is an institution of forty members who are chosen for their outstanding achievements. Each member is considered to have used the French language to express ideas in poetry, prose, and other forms that will not grow old with time. People usually spend their leisure time doing something different from what they do during working hours.
Business executives spend most of their workday reading reports, correspondence and the like.
While courage and constancy are advocated, due tribute is paid to bravery's best part, discretion. We must know how to dare, but we must also know why and when to dare. In every work of genius, we recognize our own thoughts that we have rejected. Great works of art have no more affecting lessons for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression iwth good-natured inflexibility.