Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Never complain and never explain.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.