Great men always pay deference to greater.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Great men are not always wise.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary — they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
He is not great who is not greatly good.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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