The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
After a storm comes a calm.
It's always too early to quit.
Well done is better than well said.
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.