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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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