Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
It's always too early to quit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.