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

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

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

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

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.

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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