This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.