“Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.”
“Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.”
“Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.”
“Women rule each other. They say that behind every great man there's a great woman, and that may well be right, but behind that woman is a not-so-great one, bawling her eyes out. She's not crying because she didn't meet the man's standards; she's crying because the other woman made them too high”
“Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!”
“Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.”