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Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great.

No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.

Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great And to be really great are just the same?

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. - William Hazlitt,

No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.