Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

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.

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.