I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

All really great lovers are articulate and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions that they may not be sinful or so much as seem to be so.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

After great pain a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious like tombs.