Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, (Jul 4 1804-1864), US novelist, short-story writer; He was the leading U.S. fiction-writer of 19th century; wrote The Scarlet Letter, 1850.