You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
“Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.”
“Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.”
“Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.”
“Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.”
“A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.”
“I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.”
“We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.”