Stort er det mennesket som gjør noe for første gang.
Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country (1863).
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself. The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.