To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only the educated are free.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Who seeks shall find.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.