Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.