Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
I cook a great fish, a great salmon. I grill it, get the skin nice and crispy.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
