For, no man can write anything, who does not think that what he writes is for the time the history of the world; or do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
因为,若不相信自己此刻写下的就是世界的历史,人便写不出什么;若不认为自己的工作有意义,也做不好任何事。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays · Nature —