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- We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. — Helen Keller
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. — Victor Hugo
- Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. — Thomas Hardy
- Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. — Jane Harrison
- To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman. — Jane Harrison
- A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone. — Jane Harrison