What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.


To the Royal Academicians; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.