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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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