It's always too early to quit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.