Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.