If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. - William Hazlitt

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it, or like that secret influence which binds the world together and holds the planets in their orbits.

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!