Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
~ Charles Dickens
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
~ George Herbert
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
~ Samuel Smiles
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
~ Yousuf Karsh
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
~ Havelock Ellis
