Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

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

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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