"Popularity? It's glory's small change...." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.”

“When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.”

“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”

“I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side.”

“Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.”

“In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”

“Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes”

“(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.”