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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

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