“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”
“... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship... All things are difficult before they are easy.... ”
“Great hopes make great men.”
“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. ”
“Effort makes some great men famous.Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.”
“Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.”