“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.” IfsShouldMindFeelingsRealityNamesStarsSkyColdFameEternalSilentDelicateContemplatingSolitarySublimeAbyssAbstractionTranslationsPosterityFirmamentTwinkling Author:William Hazlitt
“He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.” ShouldWritingSometimesAgeJusticeTastePerfectionAimRefuseSuitsPosterity Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.” ShouldMindNamesCommonSunInfluenceParticularAuthorityIntellectualDeserveWeightErrorsSuperiorsRememberedHorizonPosterityBeam Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan