When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

All greatness affects different minds, each in "its own particular kind," and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The privilege of the great is to see catastrophes from a terrace.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Few great men could pass Personnel.