“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

“great is the art”

“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.”

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.”