Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMost men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe