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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

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

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

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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

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