I see Cecil Rhodes has just been saying that he was a lucky man, inasmuch
as such honours as are now being paid him generally come to a man after
his death and not before it. This is all very well for a politician
whose profession immerses him in public life, but the older I grow the
more satisfied I am that there can be no greater misfortune for a man of
letters or of contemplation than to be recognised in his own lifetime.
Fortunately the greater man he is, and hence the greater the misfortune
he would incur, the less likelihood there is that he will incur it.
[1897.]