Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. – Jane Ellice Hopkins

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. – Sidney J. Phillips

Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl