The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

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.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

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