Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
A policeman's lot is not a happy one
He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.