“The web of our life is of mingled yarn,

good and ill together. . .”

—William Shakespeare (“All’s Well that Ends Well”)

“He that would govern others,

first should be the master of himself. . .”

—Philip Massinger (1583-1640)

“What is Matter? —Never Mind.

What is Mind?—No Matter. . .”

—Punch, 1855

“All things are difficult before they are easy. . .”

—T. Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

“It is the unforeseen (unexpected) that always happens. . .”

—Latin Proverb

“Let us, then, be up and doing—with a heart for any fate. . .

Still achieving, still pursuing—learn to labour and to wait. . .”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow