No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

All great peoples are conservative.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.