2053  The roots of education are bitter,but the fruit is sweet

686  He that can have patience can have what he will

1073  Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

1011  The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

697  A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.