“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies ”
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies ”
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity”
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object”
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol”
“Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love”
“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved”
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”