Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.