Augustine of Hippo on success

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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.