Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Never complain and never explain.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.