The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot