The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
There is no country that has the best men.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
The man who has done his best has done everything.
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.