Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

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.

Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord but few of us are willing to do little things.

Character in great and little things means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Better a little which is well done than a great deal imperfectly.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten it turns into a gnawing worm.

Forgive O Lord my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.