There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume
Talent isnt genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I wont be a commonplace dauber, so I dont intend to try any more. – Louisa May Alcott
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains. – Washington Irving, letter to Pierre Paris Irving (nephew), 1824 December 7th