For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.