Great men should drink with harness on their throats. Tim. of Athens, i. 2.
Great men should think of opportunity, and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. Disraeli.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the 30 city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. Longfellow.
Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history. Moses Harvey.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Landor.
Great men will always pay deference to greater. Landor.
Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. Massinger.
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous 35 applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. Colton.
Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good, / Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours / Are barren in return. Rowe.
Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good. Schiller.