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

“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”

“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”

“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.”

“The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.”

“A great nation is like a great man...He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts.”