The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence… — Abba Hillel Silver Copy Share Image
A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none.… — Curnonsky Copy Share Image
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence. — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence;… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence. — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
