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

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

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

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.