What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do... - Samuel Johnson

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."