If you've got a talent, protect it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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.