“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

“How strangely easy difficult things are!”

“560. All things are difficult, before they are easy.”

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

“It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.”

“It is very easy to be a skilled man at the head of a powerful country. The difficult thing is to be one when representing a weak country.”

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”

“Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.”

“That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.”