The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. – Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers, Chapter 2.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
