Thomas Edison on virtue

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Forgiveness
• Love
• Theology

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Courage

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context

• Forgiveness