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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

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

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

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

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.