They seemed to fail, and yet they eventually succeeded.

[2111] Prisons may have held them, but their thoughts were not to be confined by prison-walls.

They have burst through, and defied the power of their persecutors.

It was Lovelace, a prisoner, who wrote: "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." It was a saying of Milton that, "who best can suffer best can do." The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty.

They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted, only to grasp the sand and expire.