C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Renown
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.
Johnson.