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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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

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