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

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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

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

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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