"He who does not think much of..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.”

“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.”

“People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.”

“That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.”

“It ain't the heat, it's the humility.”

“At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.”

“Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.”

“I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.”

“Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”