"I've measured out my life in coffee spoons."
— T.S. Eliot

""When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!"

~Jim Elliot"
— Elisabeth Elliot (The Journals of Jim Elliot)

"I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes."
— Jane Austen

"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. "
— Jane Austen

"Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness."
— Jane Austen persuasion

"There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
— Jane Austen persuasion

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."
— Jim Elliot (Journals of Jim Elliot)