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

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

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

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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

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

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

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.