The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

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

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

After a storm comes a calm.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.