Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

He that rises late must trot all day.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.