A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget. - Anthony Trollope

Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

It was true, however, that he sometimes startled his hearers by things which might have been considered to border on coarseness if they had not been said by a clergyman.