Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise read more

That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.

So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as read more

So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,
Because his soul was great.

Be good and you will be lonely

Be good and you will be lonely

For he that once is good, is ever great.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

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.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which read more

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning
he cannot quite bury under the Finite.