George D. Prentice on success

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

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.