John Henry Newman

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.