Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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.
Know or listen to those who know.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.