It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
Great actions speak great minds.
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
