A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
Do what you're afraid to do.
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.