December 12

“Do not hope you are to gain the victory in a day. It may take months, it may take years. Inch by inch, and step by step the battle must be fought. Over and over again you will be worsted and give ground, but do not therefore yield. Resolve never to be driven back quite so far as you have advanced.”

WHYTE-MELVILLE

“Did you ever hear of a person who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it? If someone constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did anyone ever try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them, - that it was a vain endeavour?”

THOREAU

“A great effort may be made in a moment of excitement; but continual little efforts can only be made on principle.”

GOULBURN