Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- Alfred Victor Vigny, (Mar 27 1797-1863), French man of letters; He was an early exponent of French romanticism, e.g., Cliq-Mars, 1826; he also translated Othello into French verse.