Fellows Quote by George Meredith

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

— Orison Swett Marden

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority…

— David Hume

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body…

— Lewis Tappan

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

— Jean de la Bruyere

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

— Samuel Johnson

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the…

— Confucius

I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure…

— John Ruskin

Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular

— Anonymous

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery