Genius Only Leaves Behind It The Monuments

The Way To Get On In The World Is To Be Neither More Nor Less Wise, Neither Better Nor Worse Than Your Neighbours.

Fashion Is Gentility Running Away From Vulgarity And Afraid Of Being Overtaken

Men Will Die For An Opinion As Soon As For Anything Else.

A King (as Such) Is Not A Great Man. He Has Great Power, But It Is Not His Own.

What I Mean By Living To One's-self Is Living In The World, As In It, Not Of It: It Is As If No One Know There Was Such A Person, And You Wished No One To Know It: It Is To Be A Silent Spectator Of The Mighty Scene Of Things, Not An Object Of Attention Or Curiosity In It; To Take A Thoughtful, Anxious Interest In What Is Passing In The World, But Not To Feel The Slightest Inclination To Make Or Meddle With It.