“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”
“It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.”
“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.”
“Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.”
“Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.”