Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la BruyereThere is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la BruyereThere is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.
Jean de la Bruyere