It's always too early to quit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Never complain and never explain.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Well done is better than well said.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?