Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense and great expense may be an essential part in true economy.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second their imagination and third their industry.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent generous perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

I have a great love and respect for religion great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism people who do not choose.