If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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

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

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