Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
Joshua ReynoldsExcellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.
Joshua Reynolds