“Some men are great, and some men have greatness thrust upon them. Isn't that so Jim?”
“Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.”
“Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth”
“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”
“I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”