Great men are sincere. Emerson.
Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. Carlyle.
Great Men are the inspired (speaking and 10 acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. Carlyle.
Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. Carlyle.
Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded. Amiel.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Emerson.
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. Emerson.
Great men do not play stage tricks with the 15 doctrines of life and death; only little men do that. Ruskin.
Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy. Vauvenargues.
Great men get more by obliging inferiors than by disdaining them. South.