When Religion and Royalty are swept away the people will attack the great and after the great they will fall upon the rich.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching childlike and of the race of giants.
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.
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.
Endurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance your prayers your sacrifice and he most humbly asks this of you.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.