“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.”

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

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.”

“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”