Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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

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

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