"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best;
But what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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