We are not all great because we are inspired, but we feel great because we are.
The course of Nature is the art of God
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.