Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. – Humphry Davy
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. – Ambrose Bierce
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many great actions are committed in small struggles. – Victor Hugo
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. – Bertrand Russell
A great mind becomes a great fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. – Mignon McLaughlin
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. – John Adams
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. – Jack Kerouac
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. – Bertrand Russell
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. – Orison Swett Marden
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. – Orison Swett Marden
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. – Arthur Schopenhauer
To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. – Thomas Carlyle
