If you've got a talent, protect it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I can, therefore I am.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Well done is better than well said.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.