No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

…greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.