The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.