Josh Billings on success

It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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.