Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.