“Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness”

“Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.”

“People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.”

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”