God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
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.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.