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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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

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

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

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.