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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

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

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.