Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Never complain and never explain.

Know or listen to those who know.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.