If you don't know how great this country is I know someone who does Russia.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary great minds with the ordinary.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

We know but a few men a great many coats and breeches.

I always entertain great hopes.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.