To many fame comes too late.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous — who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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