Strange designs lurk under a gift. "Give the horse to his Holiness,"
said the cardinal. "I cannot serve you!"--_Zimmermann._
~Glory.~--To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When
the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.--_Napoleon._
Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must
pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none.
They must be able to simulate and dissimulate, to leap and to creep; to
conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus;
to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale; or, like
Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while
she is hesitating where to bestow them.--_Colton._
Obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true
glory.--_Burke._
The best kind of glory is that which is reflected from honesty,--such as
was the glory of Cato and Aristides; but it was harmful to them both,
and is seldom beneficial to any man whilst he lives; what it is to him
after his death I cannot say, because I love not philosophy merely
notional and conjectural, and no man who has made the experiment has
been so kind as to come back to inform us.--_Cowley._