What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.