The more you do, the more you can do.
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.