Hold on boys, no cowards among my children... Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show. I could have told you many things that would have made your heart leap, but I will not. I want iron wills and hearts that do not know how to quake. Hold on. The Lord will bless you.
Letter to Alasinga Perumal. From USA: August 1895. Complete Works, 5.93.