Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. – W. Somerset Maugham

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. – Honore de Balzac

He was as great as a man can be without morality. – Alexis de Tocqueville