No man knows himself as an original.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

No man knows himself as an original.

Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.