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

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

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

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

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

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

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