“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”

“Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and its true proportions; a close approach shews the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer.”

“Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”