I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
If I have done the public any service it is due to my patient thought.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth...
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction...
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then...
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients...
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence that is everything.
