To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

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