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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.