“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”

“True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.”

“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

“True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.”

“Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.”

“It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can.

—Boldred”

“An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.”

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies”

“A superintendent of a road fifty miles in length can give its business his professional attention and may be constantly on the line engaged in the direction of its details; each person is personally known to him, and all questions in relation to its business are at once presented and acted upon; and any system however imperfect may under such circumstances prove comparatively successful.
In the government of a five hundred miles in length a very different state exists. Any system which might be applicable to the business and extent of a short road would be found entirely inadequate to the wants of a long one. and I am fully convinced that in the want of system perfect in its details, properly adapted and vigilantly enforced, lies the true secret of their [the large roads’] failure; and that this disparity of cost per mile in operating long and short roads, is not produced by a difference in length, but is in proportion to the perfection of the system adopted.”

“The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.”