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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.