The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I can, therefore I am.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.