The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.