Genius exacts the patience to work — and the longer I live, citizen, the less I believe in the efficiency of sudden illuminations that are not accompanied or supported by serious work, the less I believe in the efficiency of conversions, extraordinary, sudden and marvelous, in the efficiency of sudden passions, — and the more I believe in the efficiency of modest, slow, molecular, definitive work.
The longer I live — the less I believe in the efficiency of an extraordinary sudden social revolution, improvised, marvelous, with or without guns and impersonal dictatorship — and the more I believe in the efficiency of modest, slow, molecular, definitive social work.
