If you do not scale the mountain, you cannot view the plain.—Chinese.
I remember, I remember
When I was seventeen;
I was the cleverest young man
The world had ever seen.
The universe seemed simple then,
But now ’tis little joy
To know I don’t know lots of things
I did know when a boy.
There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, sincere earnestness.—Dickens.