A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.

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 deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,

No truly great man ever thought himself so.