Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

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

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