Patience is the greatest of the virtues. If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will feel sorrow close at hand. Circumstances are the creatures of men. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. There is no substitute for hard work.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Genius is at first little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. Every soul is potentially Genius, if not arrested. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected ideas. No thing great is erected suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. Patience is man's greatest joy.