“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”

“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”

“The work so performed is both remarkable and singular. It is a great work of love.”

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”