Victory belong to the most persevering.
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.
There is no cure for narrowness of mind.
Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.
... we are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.