Success is not accidental, it requires persistence and hard work.
The rules of art are not arbitrary; they are founded in reason and in the nature of things.
The mind is the organ of possibility in a world of challenge.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
"Purpose gives meaning to mental activity."