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

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

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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.