There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.