The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.