Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on success

I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.