The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of read more

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal read more

Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of read more

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- William Hazlitt,

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir read more

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands
defauts.]

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.

The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.

The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.