Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I am not young enough to know everything.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.