Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.