Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.