Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.