Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

As we look into a clear pool and discern every detail of its sandy bottom, so may we often look into the minds of really great men.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.

Great men have foibles for which they can be forgiven; including an occasional failure to see where their greatness lies, or what might diminish it.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Il n'y a point de génie sans un grain de folie.

Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.