No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. when there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A subject for a great poet would be god's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Success has always been a great liar.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
The devil loves ‘curing’ a small fault by giving you a great one.
When we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter.
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Dad is great! give us the chocolate cake.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Love is the great conqueror of lust.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
A man is truly great when he is guided by a guided person.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.