"Worry is interest paid before it's due."

"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall."

"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively."

"Perfect is the enemy of good."

"Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."