The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.