If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.