Convalescing need never be dull, unless you make it so.
from The Magic Key to Charm by Eileen Ascroft
Huge Tracts of… Linen
If I had to be born a lady, why not a rich lady, so someone else could do the work and I could lie on a silken bed and listen to a beautiful minstrel sing while my servants hemmed? Instead I am the daughter of a country knight with but ten servants, seventy villagers, no minstrel, and acres of unhemmed linen.
from Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Determination
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson