“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”

“Your Excellency may rest assured, that I have done every thing in my power to cultivate and promote a good understanding, both with the Count and the Marquis, and flatter myself that I am upon very good terms with them both. The Marquis's great thirst for glory, and national attachment, often run him into errors. However, he did every thing to prevail on the Admiral to cooperate with us, that man could do. People censure the Admiral with great freedom, and many are imprudent enough to reproach the nation through the Admiral.”

“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.”

“Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.”

“He Corot was always surrounded by a crowd of fools and I didn't want to get caught up in it. I admired him from a distance.”

“I do not admire greatness that has no substance.”

“Up the River of Death
Sailed the Great Admiral!”

“It is naive to believe that the admiration for a masterpiece is spontaneous. The admiration, to a great extent, is not born within people but between people, as if we forced each other to admire (while no one is “personally” enraptured).”

“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”

“Can love communicate over great distance? I could only hope so.”