It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him no error without evil.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth great return great satisfaction great reputation and great joy.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.