The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.