Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.