Greatness, As We Daily See It, Is

Fleas Know Not Whether They Are Upon The Body Of A Giant Or Upon One Of Ordinary Size.

Do Not Expect To Be Acknowledged For What You Are, Much Less For What You Would Be; Since No One Can Well Measure A Great Man But Upon The Bier.

An Ingenuous Mind Feels In Unmerited Praise The Bitterest Reproof. If You Reject It You Are Unhappy, If You Accept It You Are Undone.

Why Cannot We Be Delighted With An Author, And Even Feel A Predilection For Him, Without A Dislike Of Others? An Admiration Of Catullus Or Virgil, Of Tibullus Or Ovid, Is Never To Be Heightened By A Discharge Of Bile On Horace.

No Truer Word, Save God's, Was Ever Spoken, Than That The Largest Heart Is Soonest Broken.