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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.