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

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

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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.