Greatness

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GREATNESS: Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. (R.H. Tawney, English economic historian, social critic, and ethical socialist, 1880-1962)

GREATNESS: Great and good are seldom the same man. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

GREATNESS: His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

GREATNESS: It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

GREATNESS: There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. (French proverb)

GREATNESS: The biggest dog has been a pup. (Joaquin Miller, U.S. poet and frontiersman, 1837-1913)