Frank Moore Colby on success

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

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.