The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.