Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the
breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt,
but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it; feel it, and hate
in silence.--_Washington Allston._
Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when
dead.--_Beranger._
I hope the day will never arrive when I shall neither be the object of
calumny nor ridicule, for then I shall be neglected and
forgotten.--_Johnson._
A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance
of winning it from posterity. True there are some half dozen exceptions
to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of
common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a
lottery.--_Bulwer-Lytton._