Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.

即使有天下最容易生长的植物,晒它一天,又凉它十天,没有能够长大的。比喻做事一日勤,十日怠,没有恒心,是不会成功的。