Never complain and never explain.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.