Eminence Without Merit Earns Deference Without Esteem.

Celebrity Is The Advantage Of Being Known To People Who We Don't Know, And Who Don't Know Us.

It Is When Their Age Of Passions Is Past That Great Men Produce Their Masterpieces, Just As It Is After Volcanic Eruptions That The Soil Is Most Fertile.

Many Men And Women Enjoy Popular Esteem, Not Because They Are Known, But Because They Are Not Known.

Whatever Evil A Man May Think Of Women, There Is No Woman But Thinks More.

It Is Children Only Who Enjoy The Present; Their Elders Either Live On The Memory Of The Past Or The Hope Of The Future.