When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.