Greatly to find quarrel in a straw,
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends. [ Lowell ]

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. [ Homer ]

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours. [ Young ]

It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven. [ Young ]

Thank God, men that are greatly guilty are never wise. [ Burke ]

That man lives greatly, whatever his fate or fame, who greatly dies. [ Young ]

You have greatly ventured, but all must do so who would greatly win. [ Byron ]

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. [ South ]

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. [ Burke ]

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. [ Chesterfield ]

The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention. [ Sterne ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]