“Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.”

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

“Be modest in speech, but excel in action.”

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”

“Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”

“No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.”

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”