It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.