Greater than man, less than woman. Essex, of Queen Elizabeth.
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Shakespeare.
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When honour's at the stake. Ham., iv. 4.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but 35 ends. Coleridge.
Greatness appeals to the future. Emerson.
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable. Landor.
Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. Ruskin.
Greatness doth not approach him who is for ever looking down. Hitopadesa.
Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby / 40 Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Herbert.
Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. W. Winter.