...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.