No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Great hopes make great men.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.