In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.