We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.