Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.