Great
  • Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  • Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

  • Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

  • A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

  • Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.