People/Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr./Quote

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else,⁠—very rarely to those who say to themselves, “Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on fame

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 12

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