Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. German writer and polymath (1749–1832)
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.