Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.