Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.