It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical

So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

I have always stayed true to my craft.