Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.