Will

"The strength of will is always in the intellectual development. The monkey cannot concentrate his attention for a minute, half a minute. We see that his mind is always scattered. Just so the child. The more superior the mind, the more powerfully it can concentrate and direct the will in one direction. We see in the history of great men that they can turn their will to one work for years, for decades. They do nothing else, they care for nothing else. In fact, in some people, the will for some great deed or great idea or great art is already manifested in childhood, and they work for its realization for the rest of their lives. Liszt, Paganini. How could Paradise Lost, Aeneid, all the heroic poems, the great dictionaries, etc., have been written without this persistence of will?"