Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

If you've got a talent, protect it.