When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift. Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667–1745) Genius
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.