If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Before honor is humility. – Bible

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. – Edward Frederick Halifax