Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Popularity is not leadership.

Popularity is not leadership.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony read more

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Everything popular is wrong.

Everything popular is wrong.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of read more

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Applause waits on success.

Applause waits on success.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.