Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes.
Desirous still, still impotent to rise. [ Shenstone ]

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Triumph not, O Time! strong towers decay, but a great name shall never pass away. [ Park Benjamin ]

The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the winds - high towers rush to the earth with a heavier fall - and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains. [ Horace ]

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. [ Longfellow ]