Success in any undertaking comes of patient, unremitting effort. You cannot have it, unless you resolutely concentrate your energies upon your work; and resolutely refuse to be diverted by other subjects, no matter how important or interesting. When something else thrusts itself in, and demands notice, you must be ready to say: “I pass that by. I am going ahead.”
William Henry Seward's Bust
c. 1930
Bronzed over white plaster bust of William. Henry Seward as Secretary of State. Sculpted by Daniel Chester French. French was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for his design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The plaster cast of the original bronze bust resides in Florida, NY, the birthplace of William H. Seward.
