Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Never complain and never explain.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

After a storm comes a calm.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.