Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.