It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

It was a difficult and arduous task that he accepted without fanfare.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.