We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book. . . As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
