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

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

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

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

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

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.