We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.