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

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

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

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

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

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.