Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.