My father always used to say that when you die if you've got five real friends then you've had a great life.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think Hey isn't it great just being?

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Thrift is of great revenue.

On a level plain simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.