Make haste slowly.

I excelled all in influence, although I had no more power than the others who were my colleagues in office.

I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

This mind is luminous — what more is there to say?

-- Wang Yangming

I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

-- Augustus

I am leaving, but the State will always remain.

-- Louis XIV of France

I have loved war too much; do not imitate me in this.

-- Louis XIV of France

Oh, my country! How I leave my country!

-- William Pitt the Younger

Thomas Jefferson survives.

-- John Adams