No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
–Voltaire
http://www.egs.edu/library/voltaire/biography/

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
–Voltaire
http://www.egs.edu/library/voltaire/biography/

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes – with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
–Elizabeth Gaskell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/cranford/gaskell.html

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
–Walter Scott
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Walter-Scott-1st-Baronet

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
–Jane Austen
http://www.jasna.org/info/about_austen.html

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
–Mary Shelley
http://www.egs.edu/library/mary-shelley/biography/

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
–Jean de la Fontaine
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/326307/Jean-de-La-Fontaine

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
–Charles Dickens
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/dickens_charles.shtml

“Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
–L. M. Montgomery
http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/aboutlmm/herlife

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
–Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
–William Wordsworth
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-wordsworth
