Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise. - Stendhal

Como se ve, aquella cabeza, tan serena y fría hasta entonces, atravesaba un periodo de extravío lamentable, de delirio completo.

Society being divided in strips like bamboo, the great business of a man is to ascend to the class superior to his own, and all the effort of this class is to prevent him from ascending.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.