"All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have be…"

"In his home-life Turgot remained most frugal and laborious, treating his servants with a benevolence then accounted c…"

"He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation."

"For the first time he looked into his heart and wrote, and thus for the first time he touched the hearts of others; t…"

"It is by character and not by intellect the world is won."

"If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in …"

"It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost eve…"

"A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person."

"There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest an…"

"'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a …"