I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.