One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.