No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.