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

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

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

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

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

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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.