...is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being." — John Lubbock "Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping." — Jonathan Swift "When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable...

...marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. * * » The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable,...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. * * * Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. * * * An idle reason...

...experiment might generate. This was the way Professor Brent had moved through the ranks. As Swift said, 'Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices, so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.' By using techniques he learnt at Eton, arrogantly making his juniors feel inferior; Professor...

...by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." "Ambition often pnte men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping." ' ' No wise man ever wished to be younger. ' ' "Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but...

...making cages. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable ; for the happy impute all their вис-, cess to prudence and merit. Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion...