We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.

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

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!

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.