Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.