No Work Lost. November 23.

If you lose heart about your work, remember that none of it is lost -- that the good of every good deed remains and breeds and works on for ever, and that all that fails and is lost is the outside shell of the thing, which, perhaps, might have been better done; but better or worse has nothing to do with the real spiritual good which you have done to men's hearts.

Letters and Memories. 1862.