For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

我们在世上得到的一切都有代价；志向虽然值得拥有，却无法轻易实现，它要求我们付出劳动、克制自己，也经历焦虑与挫折。