A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. — Thomas Carlyle. Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.