If you think you can do it, you can.
Only the educated are free.
Know or listen to those who know.
I can, therefore I am.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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.