“With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.”

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”

“Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.”

“It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.”

“The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.”

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”