Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.