To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It's always too early to quit.
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Culture makes all men gentle.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.