Wisdom Is Immortal. She Can Wait Forever,

It Takes More To Make One Sage Today Than It Did To Make The Seven Of Greece. And You Need More Resources To Deal With A Single Person These Days Than With An Entire Nation In Times Past.

They Make The Greatest Show Of What They Have Done, Who Have Done Least.

Hope Has A Good Memory, Gratitude A Bad One.

Know How To Keep Anticipation Alive: Always Strive To Feed It, By Letting The Much Promise More, And The One Achievement Be The Announcement Only Of A Greater. Put Not All Your Reserves Into The First Throw; The Great Trick Is To Dole Out Strength, And To Dole Out Mind, In Such A Fashion As To Bring Forward Increasingly The Fulfillment Of What Was Expected Of You.

Fortune Soon Tires Of Carrying Anyone Long On Her Shoulders.