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• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.
  If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results....
• As having nothing, and yet possessing all things. -- New Testament -- 2 Corinthians vi, 10
• Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears.
  If a man is agitated in mind, And his thoughts go hither and thither, Only those friends On whom he fixes his conscious thoughts Will follow....
• All things change, nothing is extinguished.
• All things evolve, nothing is extinguished.
• Most people - one may say the best sort of people - greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.
  -- Anon....
• Nothing is done until nothing is done.
• Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 16...