The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became "geniuses" (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

We can't encourage narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.