To create something you must be something.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.