Ian

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

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
― Jacob A. Riis

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus