Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.