Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
He was a man who had always been too proud to ask for help, and now he was too proud to accept it.
My mother was an atheist. She used to say that there was good news and bad news about hell. The good news is, hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.
The best way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.