The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.