Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.