Anthony Trollope on success

He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

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.