Where are the great men?...#2

"He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guilt. He was Caesar without his ambition, Frederick without his tyranny, Napoleon without his selfishness, and Washington without his reward."
Benjamin H. Hill (1832-1882)
Quoted in Robert E. Lee, 1911, by Thomas Nelson Page