“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”
“... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship... All things are difficult before they are easy.... ”
“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”
“Nothing is an easy thing to feel but a difficult thing to express (pg 20).”