Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

When everyone is somebody, Then no one's anybody.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

A cat may look on a king.

It is a very curious fact that, with all our boasted "free and equal" superiority over the communities of the Old World, our people [Americans] have the most enormous appetite for Old World titles of distinction.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.