Charles Caleb Colton on success

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship⁠—never.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

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.