Was in some quiet breast,
That found the common daylight sweet
And left to Heaven the rest.
—John Vance Cheney.
“Of all work,” said the Bishop of Exeter, “that produces results, nine-tenths must be drudgery. There is no work, from the highest to the lowest, which can be done well by any man who is unwilling to make that sacrifice.”
It is a hard thing to close up a discourse and to cut it short, when you are once in, and have a great deal more to say. There is nothing wherein the strength and breeding of a horse is so much seen as in a round, graceful, and sudden stop.
—Montaigne.
Greatly begin! though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime—
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.