Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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

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

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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

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