Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.