Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.