Patience

“    'Your beauty was the first that won the place,      And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart,      Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case,      Unkindly met with rigour for desert;—      Yet not the less your servant shall abide,      In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.'              WILLIAM FOWLER.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!'

'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South