All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

The greatest man in history was the poorest

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable, events pass over him without much impression

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.