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

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

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.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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

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

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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