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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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

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

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

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

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.

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