Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!