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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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