When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply. - Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.