Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Know or listen to those who know.
After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Only the educated are free.
You never know what motivates you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.