“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some ”

“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown”

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest”

“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate”

“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”