Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
