Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.