Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.