W. Somerset Maugham on success

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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.