Rosaura, il racconto che a me eravate disposta a fare, fatelo alla mia signora

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.