The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

All I want is my own way in everything

the blessed London battle, which came as a slap to the face of the tyrannical, crusader British arrogance.