We may seem great in an employment below our worth but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

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

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Great passions my dear don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Out of Ireland have we come great hatred little room maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

See everything overlook a great deal correct a little.

When you sing with a group of people you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy the great social virtue.

People who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little.