Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Who seeks shall find.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.