Theodore Parker Greatness Quotations

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

The most useful is the greatest.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Greatness is its own torment.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.