"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History

"They're only truly great who are truly good." - George Chapman, Revenge for Honour

"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." - G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens

"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration." - Cicero, De Natura Deorum

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions." - Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect." - William Hazlitt

"Great men arebut life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short." - MAX BEERBOHM, And Even Now

"Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular." - MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON, Night Thought Book

"How drearyr
to be
Somebody!
How public
like a Frog
To tell one's name
the livelong June
To an admiring Bog!"
- EMILY DICKINSON, I'm Nobody! Who are you?

"To be great is to be misunderstood." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Self-Reliance

"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The American Scholar

"Few great men could pass Personnel." - PAUL GOODMAN, Growing Up Absurd

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." - MENCIUS, Works

"Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of those acts, will be written the history of this generation." - Kennedy, Robert F.