A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.